While the second part of the Epic journey is coming up(when I get a chance), I had to squeeze this post inbetween.
For the past few days I've been feeling quite ill and one of the biggest factor of this is dizziness. I left my Japanese class early in a panic, frightening most everyone in the class. Walter-sensei told me I looked "very very very pale."
Besides that episode, I've been getting dizzy on and off since and that also comes with a side of bad headaches. That night I didn't go to algebra or Tae Kwon Do either.
The leads me to the real story here. Tae Kwon Do. I love that place. With all the stress and fear that I wrap around it, I still love it. Everyone should be involved in a martial arts class.
I love it because the art is simply amazing and it is such an outstanding feeling to be able to do those things. I really try to push myself in there because I'm very serious about it. I want to get it right and master it. That's mostly why it's so stressful for me.
Secondly, I love it because the atmosphere. There is so much respect in that room. The formalities make me shiver with excitement on the inside. The idea of bowing to your superiors makes me smile everytime I think about it. Am I too old fashioned?
But honestly, I bow to Master every chance I get :]
So, getting to my point, something I don't do very often, I want to talk about the people there and about how caring they are.
I made myself go to TKD class tonight even thought I wasn't going to participate. I knew I wouldn't be able to handle the intense training when I was feeling so unbalanced and naseous, however I also knew that missing two classes in a row would make it extrememly difficult to catch up. Testing is coming up in October, you know. So my solution was to at least watch.
Oh, and we got our uniforms tonight!! Yay!
When I arrived I asked Nick, the president, if it would be alright for me to just watch from the side. He said, "Of course! Health comes first." I thought it would probably be fine, but with all of the rules in that room, I wanted to make sure I wasn't showing any disrespect to anyone.
So, I changed into my uniform(next time I'll change before I get there. The girl's locker room is frightening) and then sat against the wall in our training room(which is really just the other side of the basketball court). When the Master called for attention her immediatley came to me when I didn't get up in line and asked if I was alright.
That alone gave me a twinge of bright joy. The Master is my hero :]
What's even better is he didn't just say, "Hey, are you alright? Oh, okay," He listened to my explaination and was proud of me for coming to watch. He smiled at me and said he was glad I was there.
Am I just a little girl?
After a long while everyone took a break and again the Master came to me and expressed his feelings of appreciation for me making the effort to come even just to watch. When he approached me he gave me a sort of sad face which I interpreted as him feeling bad that I was ill.
When groups started forming up again for some personal training one of the older blackbelt members also asked about my health. Not long after that another blackbelt, a younger one(20's), came up to me and also expressed kindness to me. His name is Brian and I watched him through most of the class because he really knows what he's doing and I could see him teaching his partner techniques as they trained together.
It was really cute actually because he crouched right down to my level on the floor to talk to me. He's extremely tall and skinny so I wonder if that made it all the cuter. He also said it was good of me to come to watch.
When the class had finally ended, Master came towards me because his things were near, so I bowed to him and thanked him. For some reason I think he gets a couple internal laughs when I bow to him. Maybe he thinks it's adorable for a little girl to be so sincere everytime?
At that point he proclaimed that we needed to have a group hug.
I want to brag about it. The Master hugged me!
I'm just silly aren't I...?
:]
I love that place.
-Lisa
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Posted by Lisa at 11:09 PM
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